Amy Winehouse’s record label has put the success of her hit album Back To Black down to the increased media frenzy surrounding the singer’s turbulent personal life.

The Rehab star’s sophomore album was named the world’s biggest-selling record from a British artist in 2007, shifting more than 3.4 million albums across the globe for Winehouse’s record label Universal Music International.

Gwyneth Paltrow has scuppered rumours of a planned duet with her rocker husband Chris Martin - the Hollywood star can’t stand mainstream chart music.

The Shakespeare In Love actress, who revealed her vocal talents in 2000 movie Duets, has turned down several recording contracts because she doesn’t enjoy “packaged music” - despite being married to Coldplay star Martin and boasting pop superstar Madonna as a close friend.

Amy Winehouse’s father has dashed hopes the star will perform at this year’s Grammy Awards - insisting his troubled daughter is not ready for the pressure of a live show.

London cab driver Mitch Winehouse fears the star is too fragile to cope with performing at such a prestigious event, but is happy she is finally getting the help she needs.

Ricki Lake is terrified she’ll lose her new svelte figure if she experiences trauma in her life.

The TV host has lost an astonishing 63 kilograms and has dropped to a size six, after battling with weight issues for years.

But Lake admits she is an “emotional eater” and could pile it all back on.

A statue of Happy Days character Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli is to be erected in his `hometown’ of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The bronze likeness will go up in the city - where the 1970s show was set - thanks to $84,000 in donations raised by residents and fans of the long running U.S. TV sitcom.

Henry Winkler, who played the leather-clad lady-killer, describes the Bronze  Isthe Fonz project as a “phenomenal compliment”.

Singer Michael Bolton is suing his accountants, claiming they stole more than $5 million from him.

The 54-year-old has filed suit against Executive Money Management at New York’s Manhattan Supreme Court.

The move comes just a month after bosses at the firm lodged a suit at the same court, claiming Bolton - who they have worked with since 1999 - owes them $500,000.

Troubled songstress Amy Winehouse is surviving rehab by watching movies featuring screen icon Marilyn Monroe.

The Back to Black hitmaker’s father, Mitch, says Winehouse’s love of the late actress is helping her through her daily battle with drugs.

“Amy is very ill and is suffering horrific withdrawal symptoms - shivering and constantly throwing up. Her body is expelling all the rubbish,” he said. “One thing helping Amy is her Marilyn Monroe films. Amy loves Some Like It Hot. She’s a huge fan of Monroe and thinks she’s wonderful.”

Super producer Mark Ronson denies he has fallen out with singer Lily Allen - despite her not returning any of his phone calls.

The pair worked together on a successful cover of the Kaiser Chiefs’ Oh My God in 2007 and Ronson is desperate to get in touch with the Smile star.

Allen has failed to get back in touch with the producer - but Ronson is adamant the two are still friends.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been invited back to Israel - 43 years after the BEATLES were banned from the country.

The Fab Four were due to play a gig in the Middle Eastern nation in 1965, but were banished from the country after the then-government refused to grant the necessary permits over fears their music would corrupt Israeli youths.

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have been hotly tipped to win the Best Director Oscar at next months’ Academy Awards - after their movie No Country For Old Men scooped the same prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday.

The winner selected by the Directors Guild frequently goes on to win the Best Director honour at the Academy Awards - as with Martin Scorsese, who as the winner of last year’s prize presented the award to the Coens at the Los Angeles ceremony

Scarlett Johansson was flattered when troops stationed in the Persian Gulf offered her their clothes as a gift during a visit to their camp last week (17-18Jan08).

The 23-year-old actress met over 3,500 men and women serving overseas during her stops at American bases in Kuwait as part of the United Service Organizations tour.

Sexy Scarlett Johansson is set to test her singing skills on the pop charts when she releases her debut album in May.

The Lost In Translation star’s Anywhere I Lay My Head is her tribute to cult singer/songwriter Tom Waits.

The album features Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zimmer.

Johansson spent five weeks last springrecording the album in Louisiana at Dockside Studios.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has vowed to stay away from the US after a recent traumatic confrontation with photographers in New York.

The Oscar winner was pounced upon by the paparazzi during a visit to Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital last week.

Paltrow insists the media attention in American is much worse than in London, where she lives with her husband, Coldplay rocker Chris Martin and their two children Apple, three, and one-year-old Moses.

Chat show host Jerry Springer wants his own TV channel so he can present all the programmes.

The Jerry Springer Show host jokes that he would ideally like to present everything from the news to cooking shows on a station dedicated to him.

“I think we need a television station that’s all Jerry, all the time,” he said. “I don’t know why other people are in the business. Why don’t they retire? I want to do the news, the sports, the game shows, the talk shows and the cooking shows.”

Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch has issued an emotive plea to British police not to arrest his troubled daughter after she was filmed taking Class A drugs.

Video footage surfaced of the Rehab star smoking crack cocaine and snorting ecstasy at her East London home last Friday.

Cops have now seized the video evidence - which was obtained by The Sun - to see if Winehouse will face any charges over the incident

Daniel Day-Lewis suffered for his art while filming Oscar-nominated movie There Will Be Blood after breaking a rib during a stunt fall.

The movie star, who has won a Best Actor Academy Award nod for his portrayal of ruthless oil tycoon Daniel Plainview, admits a scene in which his character falls down a well was for real and he didn’t have to pretend to be hurt.

Former Beverly Hills, 90210 star Tori Spelling is pregnant with her second child, according to new US reports.

The actress and husband Dean McDermott became first-time parents last year when baby son Liam was born, and they’re said to be ecstatic about the news.

A close pal of Spelling’s told American magazine In Touch Weekly: “They have been having so much fun with Liam, they couldn’t wait to have another (child).”

Rocker Lenny Kravitz has given up sex - and has been celibate for three years as a result.

The Are You Gonna Go My Way star has been linked with some of Hollywood’s most beautiful women, including Nicole Kidman, Madonna, and Penelope Cruz, in the past, but now abstains from getting physical until marriage.

Comedy legend Mel Brooks has given up on love at the age of 81.

Brooks has been single since Anne Bancroft, his wife of 41 years, died in 2005 - and he is now happy to concentrate on his family, friends and career.

He said: “Nothing’s worse than an old Jew dating. You really think I could listen to somebody ask me, ‘What’s your sign?’ Absolutely not dating. I have grandchildren, dear friends, my show - that’s all I want.”